Faculty and Staff

The English faculty is dedicated to providing a traditional Liberal Arts experience
and serving the practical needs of its students and, in turn, the metropolitan community.
They have won University Teaching Awards in fourteen of the last seventeen years and
are dedicated to scholarship and creative projects that enhance their teaching. In
addition, many have won major awards and grants for their research and have achieved
national and international recognition in their fields.

Essays and stories have appeared in The New York Times, American Short Fiction, American Book Review, Epoch, Oxford American, Story South and LitnImage, Best New American Voices, Best of the Net, Louisiana in Words, Bar Stories, and The Southern Review

Area of Specialization: Victorian AgeGraduate Courses: Aestheticism and Decadence, Modernist British Fiction; Tennyson and the BrowningsUndergraduate Courses: Early and Later Victorian Literature; The Nineteenth-Century Novel; The Modern Novel;
Survey of British Literature